The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-10-17
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

An Unknown Country. By the author of
John Halifax, Gentleman. Mrs. Muloch-
Craik's delightful papers recently published
in the English Illustrated Magazine, have
been gathered, with Mr.. Noel Paton's inter
esting illustrations, into beautiful volume
The Unknown Country" is not country
of the imagination, but little known and
less travelled region in the north of Ireland.
"a region" says Mrs. Craik, $50 strangely
beautiful in its desolation and isolation that
ever since first saw it in passing glimpse
fifteen years ago, it had rested on my mind
amid all the countries have since travelled
through as a land quite peculiar, which
loBged to revisit and investigate ="
And richly was she rewarded, and fortunate
are her readers who accompany her ON the
journey. The story of the trip, the descrip-
tons of scenery. people and customs, are
given with the writer's unrivalled skill and
cleverness; and Antoine Cuthendall, The
Giants Causeway, Londonderry, Gweedore
and Carrick become familiar to us through
the vivid word-painting of Mrs. Craik and
the skilled pencil of Mr.. Noel Patton, which
together form charming and valuable work.
New York: Harper & Brothers Portland:
Loring Short & Harmony
Dialect Ballads. By Charles Nollen
Adams, author Of ''Leedle Yawcob Strauss"
and other Poems. Illustrated by "Boz"
Nothing could be better of their kind than the
well-known dialect ballads of Mr.. Adams.
They are full of humor, to which the dialect
adds the finishing touch, and one often finds
in them more than little pathos. The last
ten pages of the pretty little volume are de-
voted to series of ''versifed puns" which
are very amusing and of which we give
specimen.
EARLY RISING.
g T.. rise with the lark
And with the lark TO bed"
s'Why for pattern choose the lark
RlSe III the morn While vet tits dark
And with the early bird to bed repair?
why not take bruln for example?
VI promptness, pray, what better sample?
lis SAID there's nothing surly as bear"
New York: Harper & Brothers; Portland:
Loring, Short & Harmony
The Giant Dwarf. A Story for Young and
Old. By the author of Brentwood, &C. One
would suppose this story to be written by
German, and at least the author, whose
name we regret to find is not given, is per-
fectly familiar with the people and country
he describes, the German peasants and their
homes. No more charming story "for young
and old" can DE found among the books of
the day than this history of the good Herr
Mischief and of Kasper and his dog whom he
befriended. The book reads like transla-
ton, which it evidently is not-and is pure,
sweet, wholesome and entertaining from be.
ginning to end (New York: Thomas Y.
Crowell & Coz
South Country Neighbors. By Esther
Bernon Carpenter. This volume is dedi-
Gated ito Oliver Wendell Holmes, my earli-
est and latest master" 1t contains a series
Of brightly written character sketches of the
South Country" Rhode Island country peo-
pie OF forty years ago, at time, the author
says, when everybody's hobby was ridden
bare-backed, and freaks and oddities of indi-
viduality foulished unchecked by an upstart
civilization" Several of these studies from
life have appeared in the providence Jour
nal, and will be of special local interest to
The people of the Narragansett country.
Boston: Roberts Brothers; Portland Lor-
ing, Short & Harmony
The Invaders and Other Stories. b,
Count Lyof N. Tolstoi. Translated from the
Russian by Nathan Haskell Dole. We find
this collection of short stories by Tolstoi less
satisfactory than anything Of his which have
been translated. They are painful. and that
Is their chief characteristic. As stndies of
Russian life and experience they are too
slight to be of great Importance, while they
have in them only faint suggestion of the
power and pathos of the more elaborate
works of their author. They will, doubt
less, be read with interest, but they are too
sketchy to be deeply impressive. New York:
Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.; Portland: Lor-
ing, Short & HARMONY
The Earth Trembled. By E. p. Roe. Mr..
Roe's latest work deals with the great
Charleston earthquake and he tells the story
of the terrible times experienced in that city
in his thrilling style. Like the Chicago fire
in Barriers Burned Away, the earthquake
serves to bring all his characters to their
senses and is the means of bringing matters
70 happy ending when the reverse is ex-
pected. The story is well told and is, like
all his others, interesting New York: